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We've got a workstation with four monitors that is shared by multiple users. Depending on the user, the screen resolution of all four monitors needs to be changed. I'm looking for a way to simplify/automate the process of changing the resolutions, possibily with a script of some sort? Can this be done?

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ResSwitch is a utlity that will do what you want. Its a command line tool that you send the resolution, colour depth and refresh rate - e.g

resswitch.exe 800 600 32 60

You can use the device switch to specify which device the command applies to, specifying the name of the device. So for 4 monitors you'd probably be best creating a batch file with 4 commands in.

To get the names of the devices you can use ResCopy, also included in that zip file to display them.

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Looks like an awesome little app. I quickly took a look at it, but got stumped when trying to apply changes to all/multiple monitors. I'm sure it's simple, but you wouldn't happen to know the syntax for changing multiple monitors at once would you? – Matt Hanson May 14 '09 at 5:37
See changes above – Sam♦ May 14 '09 at 8:44
A perfect solution. Thanks Sam! – Matt Hanson May 14 '09 at 18:42
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